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SpaceXAI: Grok 4.5 vs Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.8 (batch)

Side-by-side comparison of specs, pricing, benchmark scores, and task rankings. Updated 2026-08-13.

SpaceXAI: Grok 4.5 Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.8 (batch)
Vendorx-aianthropic
Quality Score100100
Benchmark Score91.594.7
Input Price$2.00/M$2.50/M
Output Price$6.00/M$12.50/M
Context Window500,0001,000,000
Max Output-128,000
Tool Calling
Structured Output
Reasoning Mode
Vision
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Benchmark Scores
ai_index92.094.6
ai_index_agentic80.681.5
ai_index_coding100.0100.0
eqbench-83.3

Who wins by task?

TaskSpaceXAI: Grok 4.5Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.8 (batch)
SQL Generation 172 178
Code Review 168 179
Code Completion 120 121
Code Refactoring 165 176
Bug Fixing 182 193
Unit Test Generation 155 161
Code Documentation 143 148
Regex Writing 136 138
CI/CD Pipelines 145 151
Frontend Component Design 147 151
Data Analysis 172 178
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup 154 158
ETL Scripting 155 164
JSON Extraction 139 138
Bulk Data Labeling 125 123
OCR / Document Parsing 147 149
Table Extraction from PDFs 147 149
Long-Document Summarization 160 171
Short-Form Summarization 123 123
Blog Post Writing 141 146

Scores reflect capability match + benchmark data + pricing for each task. Methodology →

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